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No. gcc and clang development do not occur on github and likely never will. Gcc didn’t even use git until relatively recently (not in 2014). You can go look up
by riceart 4y ago
No. gcc and clang development do not occur on github and likely never will. Gcc didn’t even use git until relatively recently (not in 2014).
You can go look up the mailing list archives - this repo predates nothing.
> helped incubating said containers and distro support over the years?
Tool chain build scripts for gcc and clang have existed for as nearly as long as the respective projects have been around - which in the case of gcc is over 30 years.
Also see https://crosstool-ng.github.io/ https://crosstool-ng.github.io/
Distros like Debian have been packaging cross compilers for decades with their own tooling, long before 2014. MSYS has existed for I can’t remember (long before 2014).
As someone below said - this is a “very solved problem”.
Not that this repo isn’t useful - but I think posted here out of context clearly it is conveying the impression that it is bringing something novel to RISC-V which isn’t the case.